About the Role
Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure to enable organizations to safely embrace AI. This role will help build, improve, and maintain our cloud platform services by designing and implementing complex cloud-based engineering enablement systems, focusing on automation, testing, and operational excellence to deliver foundational infrastructure capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and modernize scalable cloud environments and development tools while strictly enforcing security policies and standards for regulated environments.
- Partner with software engineering teams to champion DevOps and SRE best practices, deliver excellent internal customer service, and actively contribute to Agile workflows.
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including network diagrams, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles with a proven track record of delivering complex, large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Expert in building and managing AWS multi-account environments (spanning hundreds of accounts), with deep proficiency in authentication, governance, and organization management (AWS Orgs, IAM, Identity Center, StackSets).
- Highly skilled in infrastructure as code (Terraform), writing secure automation tools in Python, and building Git-based CI/CD workflows (GitLab, GitHub Actions).
- Strong hands-on experience managing container orchestration environments (Kubernetes) and utilizing monitoring and logging tools (Splunk, CloudWatch, Grafana stack).
- Hands-on experience with general networking concepts (BGP and IPsec management) and leveraging core AWS networking services (VPCs, TGWs, and VPC endpoints).
- Solid foundational knowledge and experience in Linux system administration.
- Proven experience operating within highly secure, regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP), with a strong understanding of FIPS, STIGs, and data boundary implementations.
- Ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.
- Must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status upon hire.
Skills
- AWS
- AWS Orgs
- IAM
- Identity Center
- StackSets
- Terraform
- Python
- GitLab
- GitHub Actions
- Kubernetes
- Splunk
- CloudWatch
- Grafana
- BGP
- IPsec
- VPCs
- TGWs
- VPC endpoints
- Linux system administration
- FIPS
- STIGs
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Work Type
- Onsite
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $165,000—$225,600 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
About the Company
- Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations.
- Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.
- Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live.
- Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
- Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
Equal Opportunity
- Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran.
- We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
- If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.
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